1921

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s

Years: 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 - 1921 - 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

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Events

• January 2 - The first religious radio broadcast (KDKA Radio[?] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
• January 2 - DeYoung Museum[?] in Golden Gate Park[?] San Francisco opens.
• January 20 - Republic of Turkey is declared
• March 8 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato[?] is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
• March 13 - Mongolia declares its independence from China
• March 18 - The second Peace of Riga[?] expands Poland's territory.
• May 19 - The Emergency Quota Act passes the United States Congress establishing national quotas on immigrantion[?].
• July 18 - the first BCG vaccination against tuberculosis
• December 6 - The Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State is signed in London. See Ireland/History
• December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Canada's tenth prime minister.
• Change of US presidency from Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) to Warren G. Harding (1921-1923)
• Discovery of insulin at the University of Toronto by Frederick Banting, Charles Best, James Collip[?], and J.J.R. Macleod

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1921 in film
• February 20 - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse[?] film, starring Rudolph Valentino, premieres.
• 1921 in literature
• 1921 in music
• 1921 in sports[?]

Births

• January 5 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, writer (+ 1990)
• January 5 - Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg[?]
• January 6 - Louis Harris[?], pollster
• January 19 - Patricia Highsmith, author (+ 1995)
• January 20 - Bernt Engelmann[?], author († 1994)
• January 27 - Donna Reed[?], actress (+ 1986)
• January 31 - Carol Channing, actress
• January 31 - Mario Lanza[?], singer, actor (+ 1959)
• February 4 - Betty Friedan, feminist
• February 11 - Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress.
• February 11 - Lloyd Bentsen[?], American politician.
• February 14 - Hugh Downs[?], game show host, journalist
• February 24 - Abe Vigoda[?], actor
• February 25 - Pierre Laporte, statesman, murdered by FLQ terrorists
• March 8 - Cyd Charisse[?], actress, dancer
• March 12 - Giovanni Agnelli, manager of Fiat
• March 12 - Gordon MacRae[?], singer, actor (+ 1986)
• March 20 - Rudolf Noelte[?], film director (+ 2002)
• March 20 - Sister Rosetta Tharpe[?], singer (+ 1973)
• March 25 - Simone Signoret, actress (+ 1985)
• March 28 - Dirk Bogarde, actor (+ 1999)
• April 15 - Georgi Beregovoi, cosmonaut
• May 2 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker.
• May 6 - Erich Fried[?], author (+ 1988)
• May 9 - Sophie Scholl, resistance fighter with White Rose in Nazi Germany
• May 11 - Hildegard Hamm-Brücher[?], politician
• May 12 - Joseph Beuys, artist (+ 1986)
• May 12 - Farley Mowat, writer, naturalist
• May 19 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (+ 1999)
• May 20 - Wolfgang Borchert[?], lyricist, narrator and dramatist (+ 1947)
• May 20 - Hal Newhouser, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1998)
• May 21 - Andrei Sakharov, physicist, human rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Prize (+ 1989)
• May 23 - James Blish, US science fiction author
• May 28 - Heinz G. Konsalik[?], author (+ 1999)
• June 10 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• October 13 - Yves Montand, French singer and actor
• October 25 - King Michael of Romania
• December 26 - Steve Allen, actor, composer, comedian, author

Deaths

• February 8 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist
• March 2 - King Nicholas of Montenegro[?]
• June 5 - Georges Feydeau, French playwright
• December 16 - Camille Saint-Saens, composer

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Albert Einstein
• Chemistry - Frederick Soddy
• Medicine - not awarded
• Literature - Anatole France
• Peace - Karl Hjalmar Branting[?] Christian Lous Lange